I had the same experience while working for a (very) small company called Northwest
Digital Research.
I was asked to point to a big HP plotter that was running one of our programs... and the
photograph wound up in our product brochure.
Of course, I had nothing to do with that program...
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were just DEC employees that caught somebody's eye
when they were
planning the shots.
"Planning" may assume facts not in evidence :-)
Some photographers wandered around my employer of the time, Recognition
Equipment. (Like my Canadian girlfriend, you haven't heard of it.)
I was near enough to a piece of machinery to be told "point to
that console like you are doing something to it". So somewhere
in some ancient Annual Report you can find a picture of a clean-
shaven me. My 15 seconds of fame.
Well maybe not all 15.
So the "plan" was, we're on deadline, get some shots.
mcl